For the first five lesson of the unit, I want my students to...
Enduring understanding
Important to be able know and do
Worth being familiar with
...know:
- organisms have traits that are either selected for (advantageous) or against (disadvantageous) for a certain condition in the process of evolution.
- the order of the Periods and Eras on the geologic timescale
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...understand:
- rocks and fossils can be used to gain insight into the history of the Earth.
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...feel:
- that evolution is real and greatly effects their lives.
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...be able to:
- accurately explain evolution and the main concepts involved
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Learning Performances
(for the first five lesson of the unit)
It is important for students to know...
In this unit students show they understand this concept by...
- insight into the history of the Earth can be found in rocks and fossils.
- explaining how scientists use fossils for evidence of evolution (lesson 1)
- defining and explaining two methods to date rocks (lesson 1)
- the magnitude of the geologic timescale.
- the order of the Periods and Eras that make up the geologic timescale and major events within the timescale.
- creating a football field scale of the geologic timescale and identifying the Periods and Eras (lesson 2)
- identifying major events within each of the four Eras and organizing into a chart (lesson 2)
- that life cannot originate spontaneously, but that living organisms only come from other living organisms.
- describing the experiments of Redi and Pasteur that disprove spontaneous generation (lesson 3)
- defining primordial soup and explaining how the Miller-Urey experiment supports the theory of biogenesis (lesson 3)
- who Charles Darwin is and his important contribution to biology with the theory of natural selection.
- completing questions related to a video on Darwin and his ideas/theory (lesson 4)
- analyzing quotes from a video on how Darwin came to conclusions about the theory of natural selection (lesson 4)
- the elements important to the process of natural selection.
- how to manipulate elements to change the outcome of natural selection.
- completing an interactive online evolution lab on the process of natural selection, which includes creating graphs, manipulating mutation rates and selection strength, and answering questions (lesson 5).
Learning Goals (Standards)
Planning Priorities
For the first five lesson of the unit, I want my students to...Learning Performances
(for the first five lesson of the unit)- defining and explaining two methods to date rocks (lesson 1)
- the order of the Periods and Eras that make up the geologic timescale and major events within the timescale.
- identifying major events within each of the four Eras and organizing into a chart (lesson 2)
- defining primordial soup and explaining how the Miller-Urey experiment supports the theory of biogenesis (lesson 3)
- analyzing quotes from a video on how Darwin came to conclusions about the theory of natural selection (lesson 4)
- how to manipulate elements to change the outcome of natural selection.
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